ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sunshine Cobb is a potter who lives with her three cats in Helena, Montana. As a full-time studio artist who specializes in handmade functional pottery, she frequently travels the country as an invited lecturing and demonstrating artist. Her work has drawn both critical praise for its whimsical, rustic style and national and international commercial success. She is considered an important contemporary functional potter, hailed in both academic and commercial circles, and is consistently featured in art exhibitions throughout the country.

Utilizing traditional techniques, her work embodies the importance of handmade pottery in an era of disposability, while representing a new model of a functional potter in the modern era. Her unique style is inspired by everything from roaming junkyards and thrift shops to her love of plants and working with textiles. She insists that her work remain functional, an object that finds its way into our busy days, creating a connection between the maker and its user.

With a strong following and online media presence, she represents an innovator in online business models in the ever-changing ceramics field and a leading advocate for functional art in modern living. She devotes time and effort into growing and improving a ceramics community locally and nationally.

She was educated at California State University of Sacramento with a BA in Studio Arts and an MFA in Ceramics from Utah State University.

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Mastering Hand Building

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